40 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1924 



The art textiles collection in the Museum represents the work of 

 Mrs. Pinchot and a number of ladies whose object basically was to 

 show a complete series of types of art work in European textiles of 

 past centuries. In this respect the collection is markedly complete 

 and additions, except to substitute a better specimen, are not so im- 

 portant. Since the bulk of the exhibit consists of loans, specimens 

 actually donated to the Museum are desired in order to insure the 

 permanency of the exhibit, 



The anthropological laboratory accomplished a great amount of 

 work for the department and the National Gallery of Art. The 

 work consisted of modeling figures, repairing groups, mending and 

 restoring pottery, making casts, etc. A figure for the costume of 

 Mrs. Harding was made for the division of history. 



Mr. Karl Ruppeit worked in the laboratory for several months and 

 received instructions in casting, restoring, and painting ancient 

 pottery. 



EESEARCHES FOB THE BENEFIT OF THE MUSEUM 



The curator of ethnology completed a manuscript of 700 pages on 

 the general subject of fire and its development in heating and illumi- 

 nation, the technical portion based on the collections in the Museum. 

 He also made progress in a monograph on the collection of illumi- 

 nating devices. The ethnological material of the Ward African col- 

 lection was made the subject of an article for the handbook on this 

 collection to be published by the Smithsonian Institution. Mr. 

 Stirling began the study of the collection from Fiji, expecting to 

 complete a handbook on that portion of the Pacific island area. 



Mrs. Elizabeth Johnson, who is writing a book about Indian litera- 

 ture from nature sources, pursued an extensive study in the sectional 

 library and was materially assisted by the curator. Dr. Waldemar 

 Jochelson, the explorer, made a study of the Aleut specimens to be 

 used in a report for the Carnegie Institution. Dr. Leslie Spier, of 

 Chicago, copied the designs on Indian parflesche cases for an article 

 which he is preparing. Dard Hunter, of Chillicothe, Ohio, examined 

 the tapa cloth collection and was furnished photographs for a work 

 on primitive paper making. Dr. S. A. Barrett, director of the Mil- 

 waukee Public Museum, spent several days in the Museum making 

 a study of the methods employed in the division. 



In the division of American archeology the curator has almost com- 

 pleted his investigation of the Utah material collected between 1915 

 and 1920 for the Bureau of American Ethnology. Karl Ruppert, of 

 the Arizona State Museum, Tucson, was engaged for eight months 

 in studying the Pueblo Bonito collection already received. Dr. A. V. 

 Kidder, of Phillips Academy, Dean Byron Cummings, of the Uni- 

 versity of Arizona, and Earl H. Morris, of the American Museum of 



